The Retraction Watch blog, chronicler of scientific publishing twistyness, reports: Warts and all: Derm pub retracts plantar paper after author cries foul A group of Egyptian dermatologists seems to have hit on a novel solution to the problem of uncooperative images: Fabrication. The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology has retracted a paper it […]
Month: October 2010
Why companies don’t do experiments
Dan Ariely (who won an Ig Nobel Prize for showing that expensive fake medicine works better than inexpensive fake medicine) explains how corporations sometimes prefer to make decisions: Companies pay amazing amounts of money to get answers from consultants with overdeveloped confidence in their own intuition. Managers rely on focus groups—a dozen people riffing on […]
To :) or not to :) ?
Scenario : You are applying for a job via e-mail – is it a good idea to attach a smiley? :) That depends – according to a report presented at the 25th annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology (2010). Professor Lori Foster Thompson of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Technology Lab […]
Glowing progress (Herring & Haddock)
Professor Peter Herring is one of the foremost investigators of bioluminescence in fish (and other organisms). He is an honorary professor at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre – though he’s now retired from full-time research. Other scientists are continuing the work on glowing marine creatures however – for example Professor Steven Haddock of the Monterey […]